How is this heterochromia if one is covered with eyepatch?

Doubt anyone cares anymore, but seeing/reading this stuff is triggering.

Dopamine is better understood as having more to do with reinforcement learning, rather than just pleasure. Indeed, pain, anxiety, and stress have been strongly correlated with Dopamine as well. Basically, it motivates people to do do certain behaviors more often. And even then, that's not the whole picture, as recent research has shown that dopamine may even be correlated with making predictions, and other various behaviors.

Serotonin also is highly misunderstood, as though it's merely just low levels of the stuff that makes people depressed. And yet we've observed quite happy and energetic folks with lower than average serotonin levels. It's far and away from merely just being associated with "bliss."

And even then, chemical imbalance is a patchy theory/concept; too controversial to simply be stated accepted as fact.

There's been far too much misinformation by the media, drug companies, and the occasional blabber-mouthed scientist regarding serotonin and dopamine. I think that honestly, part of it stems from a desire to portray the brain as a cut-and-dry matter, a "chemical soup" rather than a complex, dynamic, and (albeit the science is still out on this) a chaotic interaction of networks.

Researching the actual science, the picture is far from complete, and even at times contradictory. Putting aside one's thoughts on the matters of consciousness and other related philosophical arguments, I think it's safe to say that the brain is quite the complex organ.

So this "utopia" might not even work from a scientific perspective. Injecting/tampering with our serotonin and dopamine levels on this sort of scale may either do nothing at all, or perhaps induce unintended side-effects.

In short, this is based on an outdated view of the brain, and far from the current consensus in the field(s).

And then, in the final panel...

The Matrix has you...

Follow the white rabbit.

BRB gonna find a demonic sponsor and start the Conception before this comes to pass.

TyeDie said:

Doubt anyone cares anymore, but seeing/reading this stuff is triggering.

Dopamine is better understood as having more to do with reinforcement learning, rather than just pleasure. Indeed, pain, anxiety, and stress have been strongly correlated with Dopamine as well. Basically, it motivates people to do do certain behaviors more often. And even then, that's not the whole picture, as recent research has shown that dopamine may even be correlated with making predictions, and other various behaviors.

Serotonin also is highly misunderstood, as though it's merely just low levels of the stuff that makes people depressed. And yet we've observed quite happy and energetic folks with lower than average serotonin levels. It's far and away from merely just being associated with "bliss."

And even then, chemical imbalance is a patchy theory/concept; too controversial to simply be stated accepted as fact.

There's been far too much misinformation by the media, drug companies, and the occasional blabber-mouthed scientist regarding serotonin and dopamine. I think that honestly, part of it stems from a desire to portray the brain as a cut-and-dry matter, a "chemical soup" rather than a complex, dynamic, and (albeit the science is still out on this) a chaotic interaction of networks.

Researching the actual science, the picture is far from complete, and even at times contradictory. Putting aside one's thoughts on the matters of consciousness and other related philosophical arguments, I think it's safe to say that the brain is quite the complex organ.

So this "utopia" might not even work from a scientific perspective. Injecting/tampering with our serotonin and dopamine levels on this sort of scale may either do nothing at all, or perhaps induce unintended side-effects.

In short, this is based on an outdated view of the brain, and far from the current consensus in the field(s).

Granted that the comic is scientifically inaccurate, but maybe the robot was dumbing down the science behind their happy pills to a level that a non-psychiatrist from the early 21st century would understand.

It's like how if you like adventures, don't go outdoors or taking a flight. just play a video game!

...Oh, this isn't the future. It's happening right now.

Added Prince of Tennis, because Duke Home Run is Duke Watanabe's move.

Prince of Tennis really went off the rails with super moves, serves and smashes, it practically not even tennis anymore

sabitafukku said:

Prince of Tennis really went off the rails with super moves, serves and smashes, it practically not even tennis anymore

how balls off the walls are we talking about here? didn't really got into POT aside from that one old youtuber who made vids about it while playing the Whole Seigaku team.
oh and the GBA games too. recently got the 2003 blue version.

and just a reminder that Shokugeki no Souma is still a cooking manga

Henyo said:

how balls off the walls are we talking about here? didn't really got into POT aside from that one old youtuber who made vids about it while playing the Whole Seigaku team.
oh and the GBA games too. recently got the 2003 blue version.

One serve was likened to Nemesis, the meteor that eradicated the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, complete with the extinction event animated.